From Edexcel GCSE History B Schools History Project: Life in Germany by Steve Waugh, Pearson Education 2009
p.53 (describing a portrait of Hitler):
Heil Hitler - all public employees had to greet each others with the 'German salute' while saying 'Heil Hitler'
Hitler didn't marry until the end of his life 'he was portrayed as a man who had sacrificed personal happiness to serve his country.'
Image - Hitler presented as 'an ordinary soldier who had emerged as the creator of a new Germany.'
Man of the people - 'Photographs were issued to show him [Hitler] as an ordinary person, a man of the people. He was seen relaxing, playing with his dogs or simply reading the newspaper. As he toured the country people got the chance to meet him.'
From The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees, BBC Books, 2005
p.14
"A new prayer was read in German kindergartens in the 1930s: 'Dear Führer, we love you like our fathers and mothers. Just as we belong to them so we belong to you. Take unto yourself our love and trust, O Führer!' A Social History of the Third Reich, by Richard Grunberger, Orion Books Ltd, 2005
p.101
Nazism as a pseudo-religion, 'Catholicism without Christianity': 'the officially fostered attitude of reverence towards the Party, its personnel, history, practices and aims.'
pp.102-103
Festivals: the Nazis added a large number of festivals to the year or adapted existing ones to serve Nazi needs, e.g. 20 April, Hitler's birthday, "heralded by the ubiquitous twig and flower garlanded photos of the Führer in gilt frames displayed in shop windows, and the drenching of house fronts in a sea of red bunting dotted with white circles offsetting black swastikas. The focal ceremony of the day was the induction of new entrants into the Party political leadership corps at the Königsplatz in Munich - a nocturnal mass-initiation rite, which used searchlights, pylons, flaring torches, flags, drumbeats, fanfares, massed choruses and the sternly classical backdrop of the Party's administrative buildings to spectacular theatrical effect."
p.104
Catholic rites: at the annual Nuremberg rally, Hitler "annually consecrated new Party colours by touching them with one hand while his other hand clasped the cloth of the bullet-riddled Blutfahne (the 'blood banner' allegedly drenched in the gore of Nazi martyrs killed during the abortive Putsch of November 1923" - acting like a priest during mass.
p.105
Then on 9th November there was the Anniversary of the 1923 putsch, 'a uniquely holy occasion on which the venerated cadre of the survivors of the Munich Putsch silently re-enacted their march through the crowd-lined streets of the Bavarian capital in a bombastic travesty of the Passion Play. Their march route to the Feldherrnhalle was an evocation of the Stations of the Cross - with one signal difference: the Saviour marched upright, grim-visaged and jack-booted, in the front rank of his disciples; Calvary and Resurection had blended into one sombre, soul-stirring event."
These rituals produced a "hallucinatory response and... restless emotionalism."
From Edexcel GCSE History B Schools History Project: Life in Germany by Steve Waugh, Pearson Education 2009
p.53 (describing a portrait of Hitler):
From The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees, BBC Books, 2005
p.14
"A new prayer was read in German kindergartens in the 1930s: 'Dear Führer, we love you like our fathers and mothers. Just as we belong to them so we belong to you. Take unto yourself our love and trust, O Führer!'
A Social History of the Third Reich, by Richard Grunberger, Orion Books Ltd, 2005
p.101
Nazism as a pseudo-religion, 'Catholicism without Christianity': 'the officially fostered attitude of reverence towards the Party, its personnel, history, practices and aims.'
pp.102-103
Festivals: the Nazis added a large number of festivals to the year or adapted existing ones to serve Nazi needs, e.g. 20 April, Hitler's birthday, "heralded by the ubiquitous twig and flower garlanded photos of the Führer in gilt frames displayed in shop windows, and the drenching of house fronts in a sea of red bunting dotted with white circles offsetting black swastikas. The focal ceremony of the day was the induction of new entrants into the Party political leadership corps at the Königsplatz in Munich - a nocturnal mass-initiation rite, which used searchlights, pylons, flaring torches, flags, drumbeats, fanfares, massed choruses and the sternly classical backdrop of the Party's administrative buildings to spectacular theatrical effect."
p.104
Catholic rites: at the annual Nuremberg rally, Hitler "annually consecrated new Party colours by touching them with one hand while his other hand clasped the cloth of the bullet-riddled Blutfahne (the 'blood banner' allegedly drenched in the gore of Nazi martyrs killed during the abortive Putsch of November 1923" - acting like a priest during mass.
p.105
Then on 9th November there was the Anniversary of the 1923 putsch, 'a uniquely holy occasion on which the venerated cadre of the survivors of the Munich Putsch silently re-enacted their march through the crowd-lined streets of the Bavarian capital in a bombastic travesty of the Passion Play. Their march route to the Feldherrnhalle was an evocation of the Stations of the Cross - with one signal difference: the Saviour marched upright, grim-visaged and jack-booted, in the front rank of his disciples; Calvary and Resurection had blended into one sombre, soul-stirring event."
These rituals produced a "hallucinatory response and... restless emotionalism."
See images of Hitler from Nazi art page